wands of wishing

[Jonas]

hehehe, my current char is getting very lucky... right now my lvl 24 orcish barbarian has found not one, but 2 wands of wishing... this is on top of a wish I got from a pool (I got lucky from that pool, got both invisible (intristic) and see invisible from that pool too, and it tried to poison me twice )

some basic info as of right now:

Cold bold     St:41  Le:22  Wi: 8  Dx:43  To:25  Ch:16  Ap: 7  Ma: 6  Pe:19 L+
DV/PV: 67/36   H: 343(343)    P: 33(33)      Exp: 24/2793205    D: 45 Sp: 154
Blessed Invisible Satiated

weapon skills:

Clubs & hammers         13   +14   +10   +4   Mastery              3400
Pole arms                9    +9    +5  +10   excellent            539
Shields                 11   +22              Mastery              2121

Equipment:

He: uncursed helm of leadership (+1, +1) [+1, +2] {Ch+6}             [100s]
Ne: blessed ankh                                                       [3s]
Bo: blessed red dragon scale mail (-1, -4) [-1, +13]                 [220s]
Gi: blessed girdle of carrying [+0, +0]                               [15s]
Cl: uncursed cloak of adornment [+3, +2] {Ap+4}                       [40s]
RH: blessed rune-covered club "Skullcrusher" (+12, 3d6+2) [-3, +0] {St+4}
LH: uncursed tower adamantium shield (-2) [+13, +5]                  [108s]
RR: uncursed ring of the master cat [+0, +5] {Dx+16} (+16 spd)         [1s]
LR: blessed ring of ice                                                [1s]
Br: uncursed bracers of toughness [+0, +0] {To+4}                     [10s]
Ga: uncursed elemental gauntlets (-1, +0) [+0, +3]                    [10s]
Bo: blessed seven league boots [+1, +0]                               [30s]
MW: uncursed long bow (+2, +2)                                        [30s]
Mi: bundle of 11 uncursed arrows (+1, 1d6)                            [22s]
Tl: uncursed Chaos Orb of Elemental Fire {St+10}                     [100s]

and the wands:

   cursed wand of wishing (3 charges)                                  [3s]
   wand of wishing                                                     [3s]
   wand of wishing                                                     [3s]

any idea how I should use my wishes? I will probably go for the eternium tower shields. As far as where I am in the game, I am just finished the earth temple, and I probably have been diving too fast (my playing style). Oh and I also got detect traps from an education scroll early on too . But still no teleport control yet, I was trying to get the platinum girdle, but I accidently backstabbed a friendly werewolf lord on the water temple...

This char is looking good, and if I win it, it will be my first genuine win, as I have beaten the game (4 or 5 times), but only with save-scumming.

oh, and maybe the reason I am getting lucky is that my luck is enhanced once and fate smiles twice.

[Pustka]

nah eternium shield wont be much better then yours.

i would wish for hmmm SoCR. maybe willpower as it would rais your hp and help u fight Nuurag-Vaarn. or
maybe couple !PoGA.

im looking forward for your YAVP or YASD post i want to find out how this char managed Nuurag-Vaarn and Fistanarius >^_^<

[riktikticheck]

well if you run into a valut of giants don't hesitate to wish for ring of weakness for a good str boost, wishing for stats is not a bad idea eighter.
you can also wish for slaying arrows if you run low on them - same goes with corruption controll.
also to be considered - some missing skills, depending on race find weakness concentration atleast worth the wish imo

[Jonas]

whew, that level took a while and many prayers... taking on great red worms without a melee slaying capability is kinda rough, and the rewards were not that good, I was hoping for the crown and protector, but got the black tome and long sting maybe next vault...

so I also wished for a girdle of giant strength as it is about the same as the carrying, and I did wish for concentration, so now I am more versatile now only 8 more wishes left (even after I foolishly wasted one of them)

so that gives me a total of 5 wishes used so far (including pool)... so yeah, I am thinking of wil and some SoCR, now just to go back and make more holy waters (out of the 4 random shops generated so far 3 of them are potion stores, so I have been buying out their waters)

on the plus side, I am now level 40, I just finished that greater vault, which was where I found 2 of the wands of wishing. (jumped from character level 24 to character level 40 all in that one dungeon level)

[riktikticheck]

hehe wouldn't know, the only times i have killed greater wurms i have never had any kind of slaying power awailable
the stat draining succs but othervice they aren't all that bad killed the fire one with 2 different guys, the cold one with 1 guy and even wasted a kharmic one with ordinary rocks way to go whirlwind and about 59 dex (sling skill at 5 i think)
never did it the easy way i guess

oh another thing you oculd with for is scrolls of defence/protection, if you want to pimp your boots etc

[Ars]

How come you have such a low willpower? Haven't you got morgia?

[riktikticheck]

well he was between 20 and 30, he went to D50 al 40 and finished at 45, cause i didn't feel like stalling and wanted to try to actually win the game
the bard didn't find anything better as a weapon than an eternium sword of devastation, wich ofcourse was nice enough

just now i finished the second win ever for me altho he was 50 when decending to D50 mainly decause he ran into a balor room, and some dragon minor valuts.

[Shael]

save some wishes, if you try the ultimate ending you really want to wish some speed when in the final meeting